Upanishads : "The cream of Vedas"

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 09, 2020.3:32.PM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-7. Karika Slokam-s 10 to 18. Karika Slokam-18. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-18. "Vikalpo vini-varteta kalpito yadi kenacit, upadesa-dayam vado jnate dvaitam na vidyate." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam Translation : Vikalpah      =  diversity; vini-varteta  =  would go away, disapear; kalpitah      =  imagined; yadi          =  if ( it has been ); kenacit       =  by anyone; upadesat      =  ayamfor the sake of teaching; ayam    ...

-------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 08, 2020. 1:18. AM. Chapter 3: Ishvara and Jiva - 1. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. The great cause of all causes, the Supreme Being, projected this universe, and Itself arose out of the universe, as it were, in a character of immanence, not losing the transcendence of its own essential being. And all the functions that we see in our own selves, jivas or individuals that we are, were present there in their original form. But the seeds of the manifestation of diversity were also sown in the body of this Cosmic Being. There is a great difference between the original and the reflected parts that we are. 2. Thus it is mentioned in the Upanishad that the causative factors of all the functions were projected first. These are what are usually known as the adhidaivas or the superintending divinities, the gods of religion, the various Devatas, the supreme celestials. They began to twinkle fo...

Sunday, July 19, 2020. 5:18.AM. Chapter 2: The Atman-5. When we say that the Atman alone is, we assert the One alone, to the exclusion of the many; and when we speak of the One becoming the many, we are conscious of the One and the many at the same time. Then comes the level of thinking where we are aware only of the many, and not the One. That is the dividing wall between the One and the many. The original drama was an envisagement of the many by the One. That is the grand creation. But when the curtain falls, the One is cut off from the many; or rather, the concept or the consciousness of the One is isolated from the consciousness of the many. Then there is what we call the manifestation of diversity in a literal sense. Then comes the necessity for one individual to cognise or to perceive the presence of another individual. But, before this took place, the original Cause has taken care to see that it does not lose control over this manifestation completely. This is another aspect of ...

========================================= Friday, July 10, 2020.7:27.AM. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-7. Karika Slokam-s 10 to 18. Karika Slokam-17. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Slokam-17. "Prapanco yadi vidyeta  nivarteta na saṃsayaḥ, maya-matram-idaṃ dvaitam advaitaṃ para-marthataḥ." ------------------------------------------------ Slokam Translation : Prapancah = the world; yadi vidyeta  = if had existence; nivarteta = would disappear; na saṃsayaḥ = there is no doubt; maya-matram = mere illusion; idaṃ dvaitam = this duality; advaitaṃ = non-duality; para-marthataḥ. = Supreme Reality. ------------------------------------------------------ Tattvam ( Essence ) : of slokam-17. "If the perceived manifold were real then certainly it would disappear. This duality (that is cognized) is mere illusion (Maya). Non-duality is (alone) the Sup...

Thursday, June 25, 2020. 9:14.AM. Chapter 2: The Atman-4. 1. There was a very dramatic action of God, as it were—a real drama He enacted before Himself, because there was no audience before Him. He was the director, He was the dramatis personae, and He was the audience. It is very strange! He immediately visualised Himself as the all: “Aham idam sarvam asmi”—I am this all. This universe of manifested effects is myself—naturally, because the whole effect is constituted of the substance of this ultimate cause. “I am this all.” It is as if the clay is telling, “I am all the pots”; the wood is telling, “I am all the tables, I am all the chairs, I am all the furniture.” Quite true, and it is very interesting indeed! Every effect that has come out of a single cause is that cause only. So the cause is affirming itself in every effect: “I am this all.” 2. But we are to enter the vale of tears after some time due to a catastrophic effect that seems to have followed from this dramatic manifestat...

Friday, June 19, 2020. Chapter 2: The Atman-3. 1. The Creator is not outside the cosmos. He is not fashioning the world as a potter makes a pot or a carpenter makes a table. It is not like that. He is one with the substance of things in immanence, as clay is present in the pot out of which the pot is manufactured, or as wood is present in the table out of which it is made. So we cannot be isolated from the substance of the cause. 2. Thus, there was an entry of the cosmic substance into this cosmic effect. This is the first act of God—the entry of the Absolute into the relative in its universal fashion. He became the cosmic man, to speak in ordinary terms—the Maha Purusha or Purushottama. The Absolute, unrelated to the created universe, became the cosmic determining factor of the universe. This is the Great Being spoken of in the Purusha Sukta and the Satarudriya of the Veda, and the various scriptures which speak of the all-pervading or omnipresent character of God. We always speak of ...

============================================================== Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Mandukya Upanishad : Chapter-1. Agama Prakarana ( The Scriptural Treatise ) Sri Gaudapada's glossary : Upanishad Mantram-7. Karika Slokam-s 10 to 18. Karika Slokam-16. ================================================================= Slokam-16. Anadi-mayaya supto yada  jivah prabudhyate, ajam-anidram-asvapnam advaitam budhyate tada. --------------------------------------------------- Slokam Translation : anadi mayaya = due t beginingless maya; suptah = asleep; ada = when; jivah = the individual soul (Atma); prabudhyate = is awakened; ajam = (which is) birthlss, beginngless; anidram = sleepless; asvapnam = deamless; advaitam = the non-dual ( Self ); budhyate = 9he) realises; tada = then. -------------------------------------------- Tattvam ( Essence ) : When the individual soul sleaping under the influence of the beginningless Mayais awakened, then it realises in itself the birthless, sleepless,...